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Trash is such an issue, but I hardly ever hear anyone talk about it as such. As if the things we dispose of magically disappear when the garbage man picks them up. There truth is that there are landfills in poor areas, there is something called The Soup, which is a massive trash patch in the middle of the ocean—miles wide. Trash nowadays is a reflection of how we became a culture of throwing things away rather than fixing them, a culture where we don’t bother to understand how our action impact others (as long as it’s “not on our backyard). Trash is a reminder of how consumerism and our love for the ephemeral and disposable impact our environment, but only to those who care to see where it goes, those who don’t pretend trash vanishes without a trace, those who know that it is poisoning something somewhere. There’s trash everywhere, and not just in the literal sense. There is so much we worship as a culture that easily qualifies as trash…